NBC4/KNBC and Telemundo52/KVEA in Universal City announced the local talent roster traveling to Paris to provide coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
The team features NBC4 News anchor Colleen Williams, “Today in LA” anchor Lynette Romero and reporter Lolita Lopez, and Telemundo 52 sports anchor Alejandro Navarro.
Navarro began his coverage of the games on July 24 with special sports features, and profiles for Spanish-speaking audiences on Noticiero Telemundo 52 and Telemundo local stations across the country.
Romero is anchoring “Today in LA” live from Paris from 5-7 a.m. on weekdays. It features live interviews with local athletes going for gold. Lopez will report live from the sidelines of the biggest competitions for Team USA across NBC4’s newscasts.
In addition, NBC4 anchor Williams will travel to Paris to cover the closing ceremony on Aug. 11 and bring exclusive coverage of the historic Olympic flag handover to Southern California viewers. This moment will mark the official transition from Paris 2024 to Los Angeles 2028.
Todd Mokhtari, president and general manager of NBC4 and Telemundo 52, said the stations were proud to have its Los Angeles team in Paris to help NBC4 and Telemundo 52 audiences live the excitement of the Olympic games through dynamic storytelling of Southern California athletes, experiences and culture.
“We will have Lynette anchoring live for ‘Today in LA,’ Alejandro delivering in-depth sports anchoring on KVEA, and Colleen covering the historic handover of the Olympics to Los Angeles,” Mokhtari said in a statement. “From now through 2028, Los Angeles will be the center of attention for Olympic sports.”
Williams, who joined NBC4 in 1986, has extensive experience covering Olympic games including L.A., South Korea and Atlanta. She started her broadcast career at WOW radio in Omaha, Nebraska and later joined NBC affiliate station, WOWT, also in Omaha. She went on to anchor newscasts at CBS Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Romero, the co-anchor of the morning newscast “Today in LA” airing weekdays from 4-7 a.m., has more than three decades of news experience and dozens of awards and accolades from the community. She joined NBC4 in 2022 after serving a long career at KTLA-TV where she anchored and reported on nearly every newscast, including as weekend anchor of its morning news. Prior to that, she was an anchor and reporter at the NBC affiliate KUSA-TV in Denver for 10 years.
Lopez has been an investigative reporter and anchor at NBC4 since 2011. She is part of the award-winning I-Team. Prior to joining NBC4, Lopez had a successful, decade-long career at WPIX-TV in New York, where she served as a general assignment reporter and, later, a sports anchor, where she won two local Emmy Awards for Best Sports Feature and Best Live Sports Coverage.
Navarro is the sports anchor for Telemundo 52’s weekday evening newscasts. He joined Telemundo 52 in 2007 as a sports anchor for the station’s weekend newscasts and was named sports anchor for the station’s weekday newscasts in 2009. Navarro is a 16-time Emmy Award winner and a four-time Golden Mike Award winner for his sports segments and stories.
NBC4/KNBC is the West Coast flagship station of NBCUniversal Local, serving the vast region since 1949. Telemundo 52/KVEA is Telemundo’s West Coast flagship local television station serving Spanish-speaking viewers in the L.A. market.
